the internet is, wild and good sometimes also this storm, is looking to be very bad. For so many people, and also for coastal wetland birds :(
For those of you who may not know, the US (mainly southeast) restaurant chain Waffle House has such detailed contingency plans in case of disaster that our disaster management agency literally uses something called the "Waffle House Index" to know how aggressively to mobilize in an area.
Nothing shows the social bankruptcy of Project 2025 more than "let's privatize the weather service". These hurricane center forecasts are literally saving lives — is this something that only people able to afford the forecasts should get?
Audubon Magazine did a profile on me. It was a joy to hang out with writer Brian Kevin (I took him pigeon-watching) and get photos taken by Sophie Park. This article is personal and, well, I'm a private gal so being beheld is alarming, but I think it turned out great www.audubon.org/magazine/som...
🌱 most ornamentals in my garden have eventually done okay this summer, and have stood up to the recent downpours well. The Nicotiana mutabilis, however, is still very reluctant to bloom. It may have missed it's chance.
that is an odd thing to be weird about especially since its pretty common if someone is a Jr or III or whatever and also very common in the southern US
Couple more Cataract Canyon trip pictures ... the "Danger" sign before you reach rapids, and me with my book (this trip retraced part of the 1938 journey I write about).
Thinking of my gulf coast friends and colleagues as Helene heads north. Hope she passes over you all with as little damage as possible.
Are you even a faculty woman in STEM if you aren’t going to 3-5 dinners per year where you’re the only woman present? (To be clear, I'm happy to go to dinner, I like these colleagues, and we will all nerd out about GPCRs. But still...)